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Burrel, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Riverdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93656. The Survey maps it on the Burrel quadrangle. It stands 203 feet above sea level.

Burrel within Fresno County

Then and now

1927 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Burrel, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Burrel, surveyed 1927

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Burrel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,108 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFresno-Kings Unit8FKU038631
8 September 1998Debris and open burning130 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU38520
8 September 1998Debris and open burning80 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU38506
8 September 1993Debris and open burning40 acresFresno-Kings UnitMADERA I.C
26 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionDICKENSON
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitMT WHITNEY
22 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU10549
2 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFresno-Kings Unit8FKU037753

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burrel in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009HailBurrel-A trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Fresno County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bender (historical)3.3 miles22
Lanare4.9 miles22
Schilling6.7 miles22
Helm6.7 miles17
Nares (historical)7.0 miles17
Five Points7.4 miles18
Riverdale7.7 miles18
Caruthers8.9 miles20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BurrelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5000394The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1660395. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.